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CNN’s carefully timed attack on nuclear energy and NRC credibility

ByRod Adams

…e license to exaggerate, confabulate, and treat Arnie “the-sky-is-falling” Gunderson with utter reverence. Hmmm…makes me wonder if their divine license is up for renewal? Les Meredith Angwin Rod. I agree. However. Bigger megaphones cost money, and I don’t see a source for the money. Sorry to sound discouraging, but think of those ads on the show! One after another “I vote”…for fossil fuels! The message: Fossil Fuels are the American Way! Pro-n…

Must Visit and Must Bookmark Web Site – www.IAMVY.com – Using Web Power To Put a Face On Nuclear Power!

ByRod Adams

…ommunicator on nuclear issues as I’ve run across. I’ve enjoyed your “Arnie Gunderson” piece and the “Best Defense……good Offense” piece immensely, and have forwarded these to concerned Vermonters who I have been in communication with to attempt to provide a more measured understanding of what is going on at VY. My native state is Vermont and I’m now living and working for FPL in Florida and maintain a home in Vermont where I hope to some day be…

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The battle for the atom is heating up again

ByRod Adams

Joel Riddle The contrast between Albert Einstein and Ed Lyman or Arnie Gunderson or Ed Zeller or Helen Caldicott is rather stark. Rod, in your last paragraph before the PS, you should make “golden age of nuclear energy” link to your post from a week or 2 ago of nearly the same title. I added a 2-post response to that comment section yesterday. Garrett Krutilla Thank you for the link to Dan’s site with the AP rebuttal. This is exactly the sort of…

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Proud – but often frustrated – nuclear professional

ByRod Adams

…general public who think cranks like Lovins, Caldicott, Markey, Reid, and Gunderson have good arguments and should be seriously considered. I cannot fight that mob. However, I can educate utilities and the coal industry about what nuclear power can do for them. I also have to educate the nuclear camp on exactly what it is that their technology is capable of. I am working on educating the legislature of my pro growth state about how nuclear power…

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Unreliables cannot provide energy security or enhance natural environment

ByRod Adams

…at people who cannot spell Gundersen find my posts even if they search for Gunderson. Rod Adams @DV82XL Did you know that the original followers of Ned Lud were skilled weavers who were being displaced by mechanical looms? They attacked textile factories and destroyed the looms. They did not attack other kinds of factories. In other words, the Luddites were specifically opposed to the technology that was replacing them in the market. That story is…

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Bernie Sanders’s message is more than media caricature portrays

ByRod Adams

…g the same fluff from enenews dot com about ocean plumes of death and Arne Gunderson fear-scenarios where everything is inexplicably on fire and melting, from years ago that (of course) never came to pass. Some don’t even realize that Fukushima 4’s fuel transfer is complete and if you point it out you get a response without… comprehension, and you know they’ll paste it somewhere else, again. But I have to say… in the past year I’ve seen an inc…

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UCS is guilty of harming humans by reinforcing fear mongering

ByRod Adams

…ngers in their ears and masks covering their faces while blindly following Gunderson, Caldicott, and friends. The science speaks for itself, and I believe it speaks loudly in favor of nuclear power. Bill Rodgers Hagen Scherb and Eveline Weigelt are examples of “researchers” who attempt to fit the statistical data to their foregone conlusion. Herr Scherb decided long ago that atmospheric weapons testing and Chernobyl affected birth rates and the se…

Performance of old nuclear plants in Japan demonstrates why much of current regulatory structure is overkill

ByRod Adams

…ajority of their information regarding the technical evaluation from Arnie Gunderson – the well known anti-nuclear “expert witness” that you have blogged about before on this site. John I’ll start with the universal scientific answer: It depends. Collecting radioactive gasses and particles at that distance is not an indication that there’s a problem. More information is needed such as which nuclides and quantities detected. A neat property of radi…

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Debunking the Fukushima Spent Fuel Fable

ByRod Adams

…ifficult situations and because I have also proven that I do my homework.” Gunderson and Kamps etc, have also done their homework.. Brian POA, Earthquakes are not rare. Earthquakes of that magnitude are quite rare; I believe it’s one of the top ones since we’ve been tracking that sort of thing. Should TEPCO have done more based on the evidence? Did they underestimate the risks? Absolutely. Rules will need to be rewritten. Look, I get you don’t tru…

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FOE’s manipulative legal strategy for closing nuclear reactors

ByRod Adams

…ereby opening the doors to anyone and everyone including people like Arnie Gunderson who was already grinding on his ax about the changes in the steam generator design. It is my understanding though that the changes to the steam generator design would have screened out anyway under the standard 50.59 process. However with the ALSB decision, it no longer mattered if the design details screened out at the SONGS/NRC level. The ASLB opinion ensured th…

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Plutonium power for the people

ByRod Adams

…is ~10^-6/yr. If you want to go lower than that take up the work of Arnie Gunderson. Another who uses similar logic wrote a book about the Covair being unsafe at any speed. Except your title would be “The IFR unsafe at any power.” Have at it. Please. A regulatory or policy guideline you can use that is widely accepted is called the precautionary principle. Your logic is consistent with that principle. If you are interested do some work on this, t…

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NRC leaders must hear from all sides, not just antinuclear activists

ByRod Adams

…eveloping technical expertise in a subject matter. Case in point was Arnie Gunderson’s claim about hot particles from Fukushima reaching the West Coast last year. He had some technical knowledge of the phenomena but he did not have technical expertise yet he was allowed by the MSM to create fear and panic that people on the West Coast were going to be directly affected despite the lack of evidence and data. I am still waiting for him to release hi…

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